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12 Cards in this Set
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Name three causes of the civil war
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tariffs slavery Missouri compromise
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Compromise of 1850
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California was entered as a free state and the fugitive slave act which required northern states to return runaway slaves was made a law.
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Missouri Compromise (1820)
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Missouri entered the union as a slave state and slavery is outlawed in the north including the Louisiana territory.
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Dred Scott
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Supreme court case in 1857 ruled that slaves were not citizens and could not file lawsuits and it also ruled that congress could not ban slavery in new territories.
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. those territories had the right to choose whether or not they wanted slavery.
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Georgia's Platform
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The North would support the fugitive slave act and not ban slavery in new states in order to uphold the compromise of 1850. Georgia was credited for preventing war and secession.
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Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862)
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Bloodiest single day war. Union Army defeated the confederate Army. 4,700 died
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Issued by Abraham Lincoln which stated that all states were free by January 1, 1963.
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Gettysburg
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July 1 to July 3 1863 the union army defeats the confederates and 28,000 confederate soldiers and lost.
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Chickamauga
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September 1863 union troops were driven back to Chattanooga but confederates did not follow up on their victory.
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Union Blockade of the South's coast
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The union used naval ships to prevent the south from continuing to trade materials (such as cotton) with the british.
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Who was the commander for the confederate army when Antietam was fought
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Robert E. Lee
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